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LAKE CHAUTAUQUA. 



On a ricli table land, ten miles from Lake Erie and seven hundred feet 
above it, yet tributary to the Gulf of Mexico, lies beautiful and romantic Lake 
Chautauqua. Fourteen hundred feet above" the sea, it is distinguished as the 
highest navigated water in the world— too far from vulgar earth for malaria 
and too near heaven for mosquitoes. Before the advent of civilization, the 
Indians, with their peculiar instinct which seldom erred, selected this charming 
spot as a meeting place, and hundreds of camp fires were vividly reflected in 
the transparent water. The early hunters and trappers followed the same well- 
trodden trails, and when modern civilization, in the full flower of its intellect 
and beauty, demanded new centres of learning and gayety, the same charms 
that lured the early savage, attracted it to the wooded shores of Lake Chautau- 
i'^:a8«v (|ua. The result is Lakewood, a social resort of national note, Chautauqua, 
justly termed the Modern Athens, and dozens of delightful capes and Days, to which nature and art 
have combined to give a special charm. Poetic fancy might lead one to suppose that such a spot should 
be located on a distant continent or beyond impassable mountains, but the exact opposite is the case. No 
place in the world is easier to reach. The numerous lines and connections of one of America's greatest rail- 
ways, the picturesque Erie, all lead to Lake Chautauqua, as ancient roads did to Rome, and the culture of 
Boston, the wealth of New York, the aristocracy of Philadelphia, the enterprise of Chicago, Cincinnati and 
St. Louis, and the beauty of Louisville. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo, may make the journey without 
change in luxurious Pullman cars, arriving as neat and fresh as Cinderella from her fairy carriage or the 
proverbial beau from his band-box. 

Copyright, IBflO, by W. C. RinearsQC^. 







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L AKEWOOD. 




The most attractive spot on Lake Chautauqua, half hidden in a romantic 
grove and commanding an expansive view of sparkling water, is the ideal sum- 
mer city of Lakewood. Two exceptionally fine hotels, the Kent House and the 
Sterlingvvorth Inn, combine rural charms with every metropolitan luxury, and 
readily convince the most pessimistic, that life is worth living, worth enjoying, 
worth enlarging and improving. The Sterlingworth is a dream of architectural 
beauty, a creation of the experience and refined fancy of its proprietor, Mr. E. 
L. Frisbee, who has arranged every detail to insure the safety, health and 
pleasure of his numerous guests. The first season's phenomenal success, and 
the assured increase of the second, necessitated a five-story addition to the 
edifice, which has been mada without marring the beauty and symmetry of 
the general plan. The Kent House is a year older, of a sterner style of archi- 
'tecture, but likewise perfect in appointments and surroundings. The proprietors, Messrs. Sliney & Brady, 
bear the burdens of prosperity with becoming modesty, and with unbounded confidence in Lakewood and 
its future, are able and determined to keep pace with its growth. Conceded to be the handsomest, best 
situated and most fully developed point on Lake Chautauqua, Lakewood has yet another advantage in 
being the easiest of access. All trains of the Erie Railway, including the famous vestibuled limited, stop 
: during the season at the beautiful and convenient station, and new steel boats, making close and sure 
connections, afford safe and quick transit to any point on the lake. Fast express trains, with Pullman's 
finest sleeping cars, leave Chictigo daily at 3:30 and 8:15 p. m., and Cincinnati at 7:30 a. m. and 7:00 and 
10 p. m., making good time to Lakewood and arriving at convenient hours. Similar trains leave New 
York daily at n a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m., and the service between Lake Chautauqua and Buffalo and Niagara 
Falls is the best in the Erie's history. 



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.7^; Magnificent and overshadowing as are the great liotels, it must not he 
j|_.j^J:,., inferred that hotel life is the only life at Lake Chiutauqna. Lake wood. Chau- 
" '^'*S^ tauqua, Bemus Point and other delightful places are noted for qui(!t and com- 
fortahle cottages and boarding houses, which afford summer homes for thou- 
sands. The numerous cottages connected with the Kent and Sterlingworth, 
occupied during the season h}^ many of the most prominent visitors, are the 
natural outgrowth of the desire for a more retired existence. Among other 
quiet .living places at Lakewood may be mentioned the new hotel Ennin. whicli 
is open all the year round, and is in its second successful season. TluM'e are 
accommodations for 75 guests at the very reasonable rate of *i'3 a day, or from >>10 
"^^jitiSS-.' to ^V~ a week. Omnibusses run to all trains and boats, and the proprietor, Mr. 
K. D. Fleek, is one of tJie most popular of hosts. It is situated opposite the Sterlingworth Inn. Tiie J'almcr 
House, Mr. J. C J'aliner, proprietor, is also enjoying its second successful season, and has been enlarged 
and remodeled. Accommodations are provided for 75 people at rates varying from ^J.50 to 6<-.' a day, and 
*.S to *10 a week, according to location. The Saratoga cottage is beautifully situated diagonally across the 
l)0ulevard from the Sterlingworth, and is worthy of its name. It accommodates fully 50. and liic rates range 
fromSlo to *12 a week. The proprietress, Mrs. Sarah Strunk. deserves the success which she has won. 
The New Delafield. .Mr. F. W Eddy, proprietor, has accommodations for 50, at ?1.50 a day and ^d to $9 a 
week. The Winch Cottage, Mr. C. D. Winch, proprietor, can accommodate 20 to 25 at 810 to 5^12 a week. 
The Wedge Cottage, Mr. E. C. Wedge, proprietor, can provide for 20 guests at *7 a week. I,The Giles 
Cottage, Mrs. M. E. Giles, proprietress, on the lake shore, above the Sterlingworth Inn, jCan care for 25 
at SS to *lii a week. It is open from May to October. 



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AROUND THE LAKE. 




A journey around the lake discloses numerous other beautiful resorts which 
deserve special mention. The new hotel Griffith, at Griffith's Point, is situated 
directly opposite Lakewood, and has superior accommodations for some sixty 
people at $10 a week. Penfold Bros, are the proprietors. The place especially 
noted for its quiet homes, however, is Bemus Point. Mr. A. J. Pickard's new 
hotel, in its second year, accommodates 100 guests. It faces the dock overlook- 
ing Bemus Point Bay. The rates are $3.00 a day and $10 and *12 a week, with 
half rates for children and nurses. It is open from May to October. The Lenhart 
House, Mr. J. J. Lenhart, proprietor, near the steamboat landing, overlooking the 
bay, has accommodations for 75 guests at 12.00 a day and $8 to $10 a week. Child- 
ren and nurses are charged *5 a week. Bemus Heights, run by Mr. Charles 
Bemus, is situated half a mile above Bemus Point and commands a fine view of the bay. It can care for 30 
at *S to %10. There are free boats and carriages for guests. The Ravenswood and cottages, conducted by Mr. 
J. Bemus, three-fourths of a mile above Bemus Point on the bay, has accommodations for 70 guests. The 
rates are *9 a week and S5 for children and servants. Boats and carriages are free to guests. The Bay 
View is one mile from Bemus Point, at the head of the bay. It has accommodations for 25 guests at 
%8 to ^10 a week. Free carriages are furnished between the house and the steamboat dock. Mr. S. H. Brown 
is proprietor. The Wilbur House, owned by Mrs. W. Wilbur, is only five minutes' walk from the steamboat 
dock. The rates are S!2 a day and $8 to $10 a week. The Maple Springs is situated at the head of 
Long Point Bay. three miles from Bemus Point by steamer, diagonally across the lake from the Chautauqua 
Assembly Grounds. It accommodates 00 people. The rates are $9 to §10 a week, and it is open from May to 
October. Mr. P. S. Barnes is proprietor, whose postoffice address is Jamestown, N. Y. . 




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CHAUTAUQUA 



THE MODERN ATHENS. 

A quarter of a million people are closely connected with Chau- 
tauqua, a Summer city, an ideal community, a centre of educational 
influence. Plato's •' Republic," More's " Utopia," Bellamy's •' Look- 
in<;- Baikward, "' are dreams. Chautauqua is a reality, great in its 
achievements, far greater in its possibilities. Chautuaqua says to the 
student, the teacher, the clergyman, the lawyer, to young and to old, 
"Come to these groves, study, listen, develop your bodies, refresh 
your minds, be broader, wiser, better. True recreation is found not 
~'r^'yUf*'*^,J'J'^^% in idleness, but in change of occupation." Chautauqua is a city where 
public functions are carried beyond the usual limit, to provide instruc- 
,yTl--'"'^~-^"^^^^'~" '" tion and amusement free to all citizens alike. 

But Chautauqua has more than mid-summer life. To those whose lives are passed in homes 
and shops, to all who arc ambitious, who loathe the joyless monotony of common-place existence, 
Chautauqua comes with intelligent plans for systematic self-education, bidding them remember 
that, •• Education ends only with life itself, " and that it is never too late to accomplish 
something— the very effort bringing pleasure. Thousands have flocked to the Chautauqua 
standard, in this and other lands. A new era is at hand. Democracy in government will soon 
be universal. Chautauqua ushers in a democracy of learning, and prepares the way for the 
great universities of to-morrow. 




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GOOD LIVING. 




Beside^ tlie Kent and the Sterlingworti at Lakewood, there are several 
^ liotels around Lake Chautauqua which justly bear a national reputation for 
superior service and 'delipjhtful surroundings. Among these are the Hotel 
Athen;¥um at Chautauqua and the Grand at Point Chautauqua, which are 
shown elsewhere in large engravings. The Athenaeum is a summer hotel of 
the first grade, well built and beautifully situated The Grand Hotel at Point 
Chautautiua, is kept by Mr. Horace Fox, an ideal host of the lake, who lies awake 
nights scheming how to improve on perfection. Tlie situation of the Giand is 
commanding, and its appointments are complete in every detail. The Sherman 
House at Jamestown is open all the yearTround and is acknowledged to be one 
of the best-kept hotels in New York State. It ,is lighted by electricity and 
heated by steam, and many summer visitors are attracted by its superior service and convenient location. 
Tlie proprietors are Messrs. Murphy & Wade, two poitular and experienced hosts. The Humphrey House at 
Jamestown is located on the east side of the city, and is deservedly popular. Tlie Hotel Everett is a new 
house, first-class in every respect, adjoining the Erie Station. The rates ,ire 82.00 a day, and the proprietor. 
Mr. H. P Orr, has shown what enterprise and experience can accomplish. The Hay ward House is also a 
new hotel, Nos. I II and Mo West Third sti-eet. street cars passing the door. Everything is kept in first-class 
style, and the rates are 1^1 50 a day. Mr. B. W. Hay ward is proprietor. The Central House, the best one-dollar 
a day house in Jamestown, has accommodations for 200 people, and is also on the street car line. It is 
situated near the Eric Station; Shaver & Babcock are proprietors. The Allen House, Mr. J C. Oakes. proprie- 
tor, is situated at the corner of Second and Pine streets in the opera House Block. Special rates are made to 
theatrical companies. It is electric lighted. .The rates are SI 00 a day. 



GREENHURST. 




This delightful resort is situated nearly opposite and within easy rowing 
distance of Lakewood. It is accessible by private steam yacht and regular 
steamboat lines, meeting all Erie trains. '• The Greenhurst," an elegant new 
hotel, will be open to guests under competent management June Jst, 1890. Its 
appointments are complete, including electric lights and baths, and an especi- 
ally pleasing feature is its large family apartments, so situated away from 
l)arlors, reception and dining rooms as to secure quiet at a seasonable hour. 
Greenhurst commands a broad, sweeping view of the lake and is strikingly 
picturesque. It occupies nearly thirty acres of ground abounding in broad 
avenues, delightful groves, well-kept lawns and charming cottage lots. It has 
four acres of lawn tennis and recreation grounds, five acres of grove and over 
one thousand fept of lake beach with a promenade pier extending into the lake five hundred feet. The 
Greenhurst is especially designed for guests desiring the superior appointments and service of the large 
resort without its ultra gayety, still near enough to Lakewood to enjoy these advantages at will. The a-la- 
carte service in its cafe and charming nooks and corners, will be a prime favorite for boating parties from 
Lakewood and other points on the lake. This house will remain open for fall fishing parties, which will be 
a great convenience to the growing class of intelligent sportsmen who realize the rare attractions of Lake 
Cliautauqua. On the opposite page is a truthful picture of two days' catch at Lakewood. The recent 
efforts to stock the lake with muscalonge have betMi successful, and the celebrated small-mouth black 
bass, whicli are here in their element, are as prolific as they are gamey. The Greenhurst property is 
owned and managed by the Greenhurst Land Improvement Company of Jamestown, who tiioroughly 
understand the requirements of the lake and its patrons. 



J AMESTO WN 




NE of the short flights the summer flitter at the lakeside may take with 
pleasure and profit is to wing his way to the smiling little city, a few miles 
distant, that spreads herself comfortably evermore hills than Rome boasted in 
her proudest days. There the truant outlet, having escaped from the lake and 
lost its way. with half a mind to turn back, emerges from its tortuous wander- 
ings thi-ough dense, overhanging swamp-wood, only to find itself confi-onted 
by dams and water wheels that condemn the runaway to hard labor. On all 
sides of the picturesque country are to be seen the homes of a busy, prosperous 
people, who have no reason to go elsewhere for comfort when the torrid dog- 
days cause the city birds of passage to migrate. For the bracing, ozone- 
freighted breezes that make existence on the lake " rare as a day in June," are 
also enjoyed to the fullest by Jamestown. She is poised some 1,400 feet above the ocean's level, where 
malaria abides not, where ague has no power to shake, and where the altitude, lay of the land, character of 
the soil and natural drainage all conspire to bring about a distressingly healthy condition of things — from a 
medical stand|)oint. A rich farming country — who has never heard of Chautauqua butter and cheese? — 
surrounds Jamestown, and her markets afford the best of living at moderate rates. There are man}' miles 
of charming drives through shaded residence streets and along good country roads to the lake and other 
points of interest in the vicinity. The excellence and cheapness of the liveries make this feature not the 
least attractive of a summer sojourn in Jamestown. The purest of water, bubbling from deep artesian wells, 
is furnished in abundance, and that greatest and most convenient of fuels, natural gas, piped some distance 
from Pennsylvania, is in general use. Indeed no requirement of modern civilization is missing which might 
be expected in an ambitious, growing young city of twenty thousand souls. 




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